The Hill is Home scoured the area for tip top fashion advice for the new year, nothing that will transform the neighborhood into Chinatown on almost any late night evening (where cigarettes go south for the Winter), or Georgetown by day, or even let you slip past the Secret Service into a White House state […]
The new year is upon us and while some of us are still putting our holiday trimmings away, other industrious folk have spiffed up the house and put it on the market. Earlier this week we reported on this renovation at 19 4th Street Northeast by GreenSpur, Inc. The light alone earns it a top […]
It’s January 8th and I’m just getting around to thinking about resolutions. Well, I did just mail the last of the holiday cards. As a long-time Hill resident, I’ve decided to make this the year to stop putting off getting to know unknown (to me) facets of life on the Hill. Far too often I […]
As you may have read on my holiday post, I used to hesitate getting a Christmas tree because trees get chopped down for a month’s worth of use and then they just get picked up and tossed in a landfill, in a seemingly senseless act of waste from our society. Yes, there is a small […]
Earlier this week, Prince of Petworth had a great post on GreenSpur, Inc.‘s carbon-neutral redevelopment of this home on 4th Street NE. The piece delves a bit into some of the trouble they had with DCRA’s permitting process. You should definitely take a look at the piece, and read the comments where representatives from both […]